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A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 13-16,10.16.—2.]

An Ordinance to amend the Rating Ordinance,

1901.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, a8 follows:-

1. This Ordinance may he cited as the Ruting Antend- Short title.

eut Ordinance, 1916, and shall be read and construed as

one with the Rating Ordinance, 1901, and the said Ordi- nauce and this Ordinance may be cited together as the Rating Ordinances, 1901 and 1916.

2. Section 39 of the Rating Ordinance, 1901, is amended Amendment by the addition of the following sub-section at the end of section 39 of Ordinance thereof :--

No. 6 of 1901.

*(4.) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council in his discretion to anthorise the total or partial exemption from assessment of any educational institution, other than those "included in sub-section (2) of this section, "or of any tenement used in connection there- *** with.”

3. The Rating Amendment Ordinance, 1915, is repealed. Repeal of

Ordinance No. 18 of 1915,

Objects and Reasons,

The object of this bill is to extend the powers of exemp tion, formerly granted to the Governor in Council by the Rating Amendment Ordinance, 1915, in respect of Univer- sity Hostels, so as to enable him to deal similarly with anch parts of rateable institutions as call for exemption under the principles expressed in sub-section (2) of section 39 of the Rating Ordinance, 1901.

J. H. KEMP.

Alterary General.

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